Local structural differences in homologous proteins: Specificities in different SCOP classes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Joseph, Agnel Praveen ^a,b,c   Valadié, Hélène ^a   Srinivasan, Narayanaswamy ^d   de Brevern, Alexandre G ^a,b,c  

^a INSERM   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DESCARTES   (France)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA TRANSFUSION SANGUINE   (France)

^d INDIAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PROTEIN;

ARTICLE; BINDING SITE; CARBOXY TERMINAL SEQUENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; PROTEIN ANALYSIS; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN CONFORMATION; PROTEIN DATABASE; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN MOTIF; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; STRUCTURAL HOMOLOGY; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; PROTEIN STRUCTURE, SECONDARY; PROTEINS;

EID: 84862671752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0038805     Document Type: Article

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